Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22
NEWS.

The Commissioner of Agriculture has
sent to the Governors of several States a
bill providing for cooperation with the
Bureau of Animal Industry in stamping out
pleuro- pneumonia. The act has already
been passed in Virginia and Michigan.
The new city officers of Watertown,
Wisconsin, met, selected minor officials,
and made the necessary tax levy, when the
mayor and the junior alderman from each
ward resigned to escape legal proceedings
on The repudiated railroad debt.
ScULLER BUBEAR recently sailed fer
America. He has received a present of
500 gold medal in honor of his having
Won the English championship cup. He
and Hanlan have issued a Notwithstanding
challenge to the world, and Bubear says
they can win. no
The Judgment of the Supreme Court of
Justice has been sent to the Ministry of the
Interior of Germany, defining the scope Of
the American treaty regarding neturalized
citizens. 1t affrms that the acquisition of
citizenship in the United States with m
unbroken residence there of five years
causes loss of citizenship in Germany.
Such persons returning will be liable to
expulsion from Germany until they reac-
quire German rights.
A DISPATCH from Odessa, mentions
without particulars, which, Of course,
would be difficult to obtain, she arrival of
$50 Russian officers en- route to the horri-
Bile penal colony of Saghaller on life sem
fences. They are in charge Of q large
prison convoy.
NORA BROWN, q fat neeress Of San An
tonic, has within seven years become white
with the exception of her neck and finger
tips.
SENATOR VEST speaks of President
Cleveland as an honest and fearless man,
working harder than any subordinate, who
has captured the business element of the
country and can defeat at the polls n
man in the Union.
DAVID E. MITCHELL, a stock dealer,
we'll known in Central Illinois, has fed
with $4,000 or SO, obtained in the vicinity
of~Bloomington by false pretenses.
A suRY at Nebraska City imposed the
death penalty upon David Hoffman for
wrecking a Missouri Pacific train last Jan
uary and killing the engineer, James De
Witt.
AT Richmond, Indiana, about daylight
one morning recently Mrs. Jonas Bennett
walked out on the bridge over the White
water river and leaped seventy five feet
into the water, expiring almost instantly.
She was a bride of three days.
A BOSTON man has given an order for q
steel yacht eighty feet long, for the express
purpose of meeting the Scotch cutter
Thistle, Boston, the literary center of the
country, is bound to lead in yachting,
pugilism, base ball, and ''tin b1idg es."
LIEUT.. COMMANDER NICHOLS, lately in
command of the United States ship Pinta
in Alaskan waters, says that the statement
lately made by Gov. Swineford, of Alaska,
that he is in Washington awaiting trial by
court martial is entirely incorrect. Com
mander Nichols has lately been ordered by
Secretary Whitney to special duty under
Commander Evans as inspector of steel
for the new cruisers, and this order spec
ifcaly states that the duty will continue two
years.
MISS MARY BOOTH, editor of Harper's
Basar, is on her way to Europe. where
she proposes to spend five months in
travel. This will be her first real vacation
since the establishment of the Basar,
twenty years ago. Miss Booth will be &C.
compan'ed by her friend, Mrs. Wright.
The Rock Island road is pushing lis
southwest Kansas extension from Topeka
across Indian Territory, with the intention
of calling no halt until FL Paso Is reached.
The north west extension is completed ia
Nelson, Nebraska, and surveyors are locat-
ing a line 10 Denver.